The College of William and Mary and Univerity of Virginia are included on a list of 55 colleges and universities currently facing a Title IX investigation over their handling of sexual abuse complaints.
The Education Department's decision to release the list is unprecedented and comes as the Obama administration seeks to shed greater transparency on the issue of sexual assault in higher education and how it is being handled.
Going forward, the department said, it will keep an updated list of schools facing such an investigation and make it available upon request.